Thursday, April 16, 2009

"Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story—a story that is basically without meaning or pattern."—Eric Hoffer

By Scoti Springfield Domeij

Does your novel have an awesome cast of characters, yet you're still struggling to figure out the plot's timeline? Here are a few tools to plot out your time line—visually.

TimeToast: Interactive Timeline Creator

TimeToast lets you create timelines in a snap. You can add events for different calendar dates with pictures and text descriptions and then view your timeline.

Timerime Features

TimeAndDate.com

Timeanddate.com deals with everything related to time and date. You can create a calendar for the year(s) in which your novel is set. Need to know if on a certain day there was a full moon? A word of warning—the website creator's organizational thinking for the site is a mystery to me.